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Getting asked if this is real
100% real! My tale, the insights learned, and an introduction to the world of glitch trading, are all included in my book, Cash Rules: Reminiscences of a Day Trader
Found at all fine booksellers (actually just on Amazon)
a.co/d/3IPHToR
The life of a trader:
Age
25 - Making more money than I ever imagined. Dream house on lake in Texas
35 - Dead broke. Living with mother-in-law in apartment in rural Poland
38 - Owner of prop firm
40 - Dead broke. Homeless. Working $10/hour job
42 - Most profitable year of my career
- Two divorces, alcohol/drug issues, burnout, gout in my twenties, countless sleepless nights, untold pressure/stress/anxiety….
Two amazing daughters, traveled and lived all over world, traded with some amazing traders and on some great trading floors, freedom, independence, fulfilled every material goal I had (by mid twenties)…
And although this oftentimes cruel world has left me with plenty of bumps and bruises, I wake up everyday excited to see what new challenge the markets will provide, and would have to say:
I love this job of mine!
Broadcast a juicy cup-and-handle swing and you might feed a trader for a month (if the market gods have mercy). Teach him to scalp and you feed him for a lifetime
Another great read from @peterkto
Introducing Churning and Chatting, my new trader interview series.
20 years of trading, from the 2008 financial crisis to retail hyperscalping in the 2020s. Meet an ex-MBC prop trader, Knish, whose entire MO is to finish green every single day.
churningandburning.com/2026/…
Don't hunt trades. Hunt broken mechanisms.
Just wrapped a 4-part series on finding real edge in trading. This one's the one I'm proudest of
Glitch strategies. The stuff that made most of my money over 25 years — and nearly every other successful trader I know
Free Link in bio
I've watched traders sit next to eight-figure killers, handed golden trades — and nearly all of them blow up
Why? They never understood the edge
AI is making execution easy
Finding edge is the whole game
New free post: The Strategy Recipe Book
Link in Bio
Happy $SPCX IPO day. Traders live for this. I also lived through the Facebook IPO Nasdaq glitch — account blown out in minutes. Warning sign I missed? My piker friends got allocated shares. SpaceX has heavy retail allocation.. just saying
Spent 25 years avoiding automation. Two weeks with Claude changed that.
It can build the strategy. Backtest it. Automate it.
What it cannot do is find the edge. That's still entirely human — and and still the hardest part of the game
New free post — link in bio.
David Hale retweeted
If you’re trading with 20k or less (region dependent), get into matched betting.👇
(arbitrage maxxing)
>Sign up to bookies for the free bet bonuses
>Place the qualifying bet
>Then instantly hedge (lay) it on an exchange like Betfair.
Risk-free profit.
In the UK alone you can make around 2k just from sign-up offers, that’s already a +10% on a 20k portfolio with almost zero market risk.
I would then pivot to taking advantage of the constant arbs between bookmakers and prediction markets like @Polymarket.
You can easily vibe code a scraper dashboard that pulls odds in real-time and flags edges (no need for the newer, more expensive models, older models are good enough for this).
The edge is small enough that whales don’t bother, so it’s actually sustainable. Perfect way to compound your stack before you go heavier into carry trades and yield farming.
Solid low-risk way to build while you learn.
To get started just google search Match Betting followed by your countries name to see if viable.
Tough for me to look at this $CAR chart and think that the play was to try and short the top. But some genuinely elite traders pulled it off yesterday — @edu_trades, @TheShortBear, @sanglucci, @TheOneLanceB among them. Well played. Sincere congrats.
BUT — serious warning to the vast majority of traders:
Stay the hell away from trying to short the top of parabolic runners like this.
These guys I mentioned are elite-level players with the experience, skills, and bankroll to navigate this dangerous trade. Extreme volatility, massive spreads, and razor thin liquidity = one misstep and you’re toast. I know for fact this exact setup has already wiped out huge chunks (or entire accounts) of many good traders in the last couple weeks — they weren't around to catch that envitable fade
Only attempt this setup if you have serious experience, a massive account buffer, and it’s already one of your core strategies. Otherwise you’re a trainee pilot strapping into an F-18 cockpit and attempting a highly technical maneuver — you will crash and burn.
Got into trading chasing that Wolf of Wall Street vibe-killa trader energy. Only to find the whole biz had been hijacked by computer nerds and math quants
So refreshing to know my kind of idol still exists — and absolutely thrives. Nothing like listening to @ScottPh77711570
I want to thank @ethanrkho for having me on. One of the most impressive young people I've met in a long time
Shout out to a few people mentioned in the pod @AgustinLebron3 @therobotjames @moreproteinbars @__paleologo
I judge a trader not on their P&L, but on their level of devotion to @SinclairEuan
latest episode of The Outlier Podcast is LIVE featuring Euan Sinclair. we explored the X argument between quants and retail and his perspective.
youtu.be/AoiTtWoNKv0
If you're a desperate, capital-hungry trader eyeing funding challenges — a few words of advice
1) Don't!
Work on your craft. Grind, save, and open an account at a legitimate broker or prop firm. And if you develop a real edge — which you'll need to make money anyway — real funding opportunities follow. Legitimate ones.
2)If you're still set on a challenge — find a hard one. Not the easiest.
Barely passing a low bar isn't a green light, it's a lottery ticket. You'll get the capital, blow up, and buy another challenge. The loop is real, expensive and will waste your time.
A harder challenge means a real filter — and a more legitimate firm that's less likely to disappear before they pay you. Pass it, and there's a genuine chance you actually have an edge.
Without a real edge, more capital doesn't fix anything. It just means a bigger hole to climb out of.
Bro is straight-up dropping for FREE the exact same strategies your fav trader influencer charges $99/month for 🔥
Plenty of "8-figga" cup-and-handle-chasing scam influencers out there — but real ones exist. Amazing traders who actually talk like profitable traders. Dropping free gems. Sharing real edge. @Gingfacekillah and @outlieroptions are two of them. Great listen.
Dropped a few hints in this one. Always fun talking shop with Erik @outlieroptions Check it out 🫡🎧
25 years professional prop trader. Not ONE elite trader I've ever traded with has been hustling courses or chatrooms — too busy keeping their mouth shut and making cash
The bigger issue? Most of what these influencers are selling is complete dogshit
















